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Chicago examiner vol vii no 159 a m thursday june 24 1909 16 p price one cent eu-jerea uy ten 30 ce^ts per ssto chum confesses he held elsie sigel's hand after leon strangled her wily gfiong caught m lies reveals more details of girl's death struggle keeps silent on fugitive despite letters police push inquiry believing victim's character good new york june 2.l chong sing un der the strain of the heart-breaking third rlegrep method applied by his captors al most constantly dnriu the fifty hours which have elapsed since his arrest to day supplemented his previous confession chong who was leon's room mate now admits that his hands were on the pulse :<! elsie slgel when the last sign of life bickered out quan wick nam the chinese inter preter who wrung from chong sing the first known details of how general franz sigel's granddaughter was murdered in formed chong sing that he could not ex pect the aid of the chinese unless he told the whole truth the fact that his own countrymen had deserted him greatly dis turbed chong sing for more than an hour before this in formation was reported to him the wily prisoner had told a dozen lies about what transpired on the morning of june 9 you know you have not told the truth about this matter shouted the old chi nese interpreter m the language of the orient neither the police nor the dis trict 4ttorney believe all that you said | to day 1 am here to tell you that no j chinese organization m the united staes | will aid you until you have convinced l lie j authorities of the accuracy of your state ! bents me tell alt replied chong sing m english do you mean that you have already told everything or that you are going to tell . more now ; admits feeling her hand â€¢ me know more ms tell more now me f feci girl hand before die then you were m the room when she w-as killed thundered assistant district attorney ward who had conducted the examination on the previous day no replied chong sing rising from his chtiii as though to emphasize what he had | said before saying more chong sing hesi j tated tnd uttered one or two inaudible wovd that even the interpreter was un able to translate to he stenographer ' be of perspifalon stood out on the brow |' of the cunning oriental who seemed thor 1 onghly broken m spirit me nol m room when leon kill girl j but me so there a few minutes later - ' he said i just at this time n diagram of the floor where leon ling inrt chong sing had their i apartments in the louse of death was laid , before chong sing it was pointed out to | him ili.it it would have been impossible for him to have wituessed anything that i took place m the room from a keyhole or i knothole in the door he was also shown i thai there >â– as no transoms over the door me no look through the door said i choug door open ail time then where were you when elsie wast strangled me no know she i strangled said chong sing still evasive where cere you then i low usta irs may-be will not change on one point the ' hinamah could not be shaken from this point lie repeated bis previous state ment lliu be oils downstairs m sung leon's restaurant about vi o'clock and ab"ul thirty minutes later went up to bis room to v ash his face was the door open between the rooms when you entered i'es where was leon he come into my room he heard me cornin before he say anything he tell me girl dead he beg me help and hide tody having told this much m english chong sing turned to ihe interpreter and said he went into the room where elsie sigel lay upon the bed partly covered with bed clothes leon was greatly excited he said but he not belieiing that the girl was dead went over to her side and picked up one hand which hung limp over the side of the bed captain carey then took up the task of questioning chong sing was she still warm little bit answered chong sing was there any pulse persisted cap tain carey this question had to be explained to the prisoner he answered finally yes but it just lasr two or three minutes how long do you think she had been dead i don't know maybe hour was blood just on her lips or did the en'ire fare show signs of it heap blood everywhere all over face i tell ling dirty work and i tell him i go way i also tell ling i give him all the money i have but i no help him with girl me afraid did you gi\e him any money yes how much i give him two bundled dollars all i had where did you get this money 1 saved it working like waiter you io!d us yesterday interposed mr how prof starr makes his case against women women of to-day attention the learned professor starr of the university of Chicago says you are barbarians and savages why because the savage man-kfilei fcsara come trophy of his victim the wearing of feathers and breasts of birds is an example of woman's fondness for bright colors a characteristic trait m savages the practice of making cuts m the body for the carrying 1 of decoration is ancient and begins m savagery woman is still the jewel nearer for her they have the same at traction that the shining quartz pebbles have for her savage sister the kavag-e and ths barbarian love strong smells and smears of color woman m civilization continues to employ the paints and the pow ders the oils and the perfumes of savagery ho-trever brave and warlike the savage recognises hie ov?n weakness savage ingenuity m gaining ends through deception ruse and treachery has become proverbial civilized woman retains these practices of savagery the savage man is largely guided by his instincts and intuitions among ourselves woman's intui tion is proverbial the savage is rarely politic he is less cautiously influenced by sel fish motives than tic civilized man so too is civilized woman woman's religion is noiablu '."â– 1 of lower culture when she reaches the idea of god how naive and crudely an thropomorphic is her real concep tion woman icill continue to b 6 a better picture of the savage than man .' so says professor starr if b â€” he ij a bachelor piser'needrsictf s>-rg*?r w.j bran jr will wed invalid fiancee to-day nebraskan'6 son will take 3ride to tucson ariz for benefit of health i lincoln neb june c si â€” a tinge of , tragedy j s woven into the romance of william 3 bryan jr son of ihe thrice presidential candidate and miss helen i - berger which is to culminate to-morrow m ' their marriage at the summer home of the ; bride's father alexander berger a wealthy milwaukee grain dealer ai grand lake colo the scion of the bryans is m his twenty-second year and has only concluded hi second year of study at nebraska l'ni versity while miss berger is not yet tw on y miss berger is an only daughter the mother dying of consumption when her laughter was scarcely more than a babf for years she has been living under the oread shadow of the white plague it was because of her frail health that mr berger built a summer home on the shore of grand lake and there the daughter spent her every summer for the past ten years recently the physicians warned mr berger it was imperative that his daii^h for must take up her residence m ari zona if her life was to be spared dis traught by her threatened ailment and by the menace of separation from the sweetheart of ber choice miss berger proposed a hasty marriage she has plead ed so successfully that both mr bryan and mr berger were won over to her cause immediately after the ceremony the younger bryan is to take his bride to tucson where is located the university of arizona at which institution he is to con tinue the studies prof starr indicts women as savages barbarians and mentally like children he says m magazine â€¢ fair sex grasps cudgel he remained too long among real savages re plies margaret haley â€” â– â€” Chicago women deny vehemently that they are barbarian and savages they re sent the imputation that they are not the intellectual equals of mere men they scoff at the statement that no woman has ever accomplished a singl thing m litera ture m art oi m science incidentally tliey have placed professor frederick starr of the university of chi cago famous scientist ethnological explorer and middle-aged bachelor who in the cur rent number of a monthly magazine has isaid some really unkind things about the gentler sex as a wbnlc upon a spit have placed him over a hot fire have turned and jbasted him until the learned professor has jbecn toasted anil done to a nice brown turn professor starr m the july number ofj the bed bock says women arc barbarians and sa ages he says also can any one anywhere actually point j out a single first-class nchie\elueut m liter 1 ature m art m science by woman he says further no great intellectuality woman may prove her ability to learn geometry and history and astronomy sue may discuss the vital questions of the day she may devote herself to journalism and authorship but when she does it on a i large scale the intellectual group must | die 5 os woman lives m an o|,l old world she thinks the old thoughts feels the obi i emotions is moved by the old impulses â€¢ he dresses m tit old gew-gaws she is thrilled by the world-old hones and fears there is only one older member of society i there i only one other hint can contest with her the child of tours is thej oldest of human beings the woman is next i nearest to the childhood of the rate audi the priest comes third and also ii win continue to be a better picture of th .-('.';â€¢ than mail lb women of Chicago return right valiantlj to the attack made upon the cs by the pi ofe sot catharine waugh mocuhoeh ardent ad vocate of woman suffrage a deep thinker and a student sayfi will not injure women women have been compared to 2lmost everything under the sun so 1 imagine that professor starr's comparing the woman of to-day to barbarians and savages ill not hurt ber much processor starr plainly bows that be does not know what he is talking or writing about when he makes the statement that he doc has rrorcssor starr forgotten maria mitchell and caroline herschel astrono ! is has be forgotten mary sonaerville has he forgotten george eliot has he forgotten harriett hosmer the sculptor or ltosn bonhnur the painter i don't think professor starr should he taken seriously 1 haxen't had time to carefully read professor starr's article but i am familiar with its general tone woman is not go ing to suffer from such attacks the deeds and achievements of women will remain shining like beacons when professor stan is gone and forgotten margaret haley professor starr m making such deroga tory remarks about woman is taking issue with history it is inconceivable that he should have written what he has pro fessor starr remained too loug among the savage tribes he has forgotten what civilization is like when it comes to women 1 should recommend that he go and see maude adams play what every woman knows his education m respect to mis arthur r bliott of liucolu park boulevard , , it is a foolish thing perhaps to take issue m a hit or miss way with the deduc tions of any expert but i cannot help thinking that if woman is not as soien tlflc she is more artistic than man and one of the beautiful things of life is the dif ferentation between man and woman cue thing prof starr iv his article does concede and that is that woman is right iv fighting for the ballot find a 14,600,000 estate knhn-loeb partner died worth three times estimated fortune new yokc june 23 receipt by ptate comptroller gaus to-daj of a check for 146,000 m payment of the collateral in heritance tax on the estate of the late louis a heinsheiner revealed his fortune 1 as 14,600,000 it was believed by his business partners m the banking firm of kuhn loeb & co that heinsheiner when he died last new year's hay left property worth about 5,000,000 appraisers how ever discovered the estate was almost three times that amount mr heinsheiner although well known among the financiers was not a man m the public eye and had lived a retired life sells vanderbilt gifts mrs br-lmost to auction everything gho got -â€¢ t divorce > ewpokt r 1 june 23 mrs 0 h p belmont ill sell at auction on friday the last belongings which she received from w k vanderbui at the time of their divorce sixteen years ago the goods ad vertised for ale consist of carriages har ness and stable equipment made for the roost part in paris the identity of the person offering the goods for sale has been a mystery for some rime but to-day the handsome landaus victorias cans and gigs passed through the city from the bel mont stables to the auction grounds the vanderbilt monogram svai on each vehicle and each piece of harness society will be well . represented at the sale boy blackmailer slain 15,000 plot 1.5-year-old youth shot to death at rendezvous with rich grocer s grossfeld is forgiven as he dies â€” â– policeman disguised as la borer fires at plotter when he grabs for money a sensational climax to the recent black 1 mailing outrages wag reached last night when rudolph hermit fifteen years old 344 noel lincoln avenue : is shot and j killed while keeping a rendezvous with a wealthy grocer from whom he had de ! manded 15,000 and a cousin alfred h.'isse 33 austin avenue was placed under arrest charged with being an accomplice berndl who lived two hours after i 1 bullet had pierced his lungs was taken to the passavanl hospital where an affect ing senne occurred when solomon cross { fold the victim or the attempted black mail appeared 1o identify him as mr grossfeld approached the bedside the dy ing boy m a feeble voice but heard bj ; every one m the poom said '[ please mr grossfeld forgive m audi kiss me before 1 die mr grossfeld the tears streaming down hits face complied with the request and assured the boy thai he was forgiven the events leading np to the shooting of berndt'were replete with drama tie inci dents sir grossfeld who lives at 42 st i lames place and is the bead of the whole \ sale grocery firm of grossfeld .' roe 185 randolph slreer had been notified during the afternoon that if be did not appeal ' under the viaducf at desplaines street and i grand avenue at 7:30 last night with n sack containing the 15,009 he would not be tiivo m the morning with detectives weinrich beaucholte els and rose of captain kane's office i he kept the appointment weinrich \ dressed as an italian laborer and carrying a pick nd shovel stationed himself on i the railroad tracks near the plnee in dicated by the allege ulai kma|l agents blackmailer shot down with the other detect gs stationed at | various points on the viaduct mr gross feld lei.i'oaeiie.i til f>mer carrying i can , \ he enirred the vi.i,i,i . b man itffpped np to him and thrusting a | revolver m bis faep demanded the money i : ; e;..iii x the sack . the man started to run tyeinrich who was standing a few yards to the side ordered him to halt the man paid no attention to him wein rich fired two shots in the ground see ing that there was danger of escape he aimed the uevt bnllet at the fleeing man the bullet hit him iv the shoulder as he fell to the pavement weinrich came up to him an ambulance was summoned and he was rushed to the passnvant hospital questioned by the police he said he was merely acting as an agent for his cousin alfred hafse of 33 a-ustin aienue on this statement hasse was later placed un der arrest at the schindler theater mil waukee avenue and huron street he admitted that he was implicated with berndt but denied he was the prime mover lie said he went to the corner of desplaines street and grand avenue with bis cousin and waited a short dis tance away while he went to get the money from grossfeld wheu the shoot ing occurred be ran 1 knew nothing of the demand on mr grossfeld until list monday night de clared hasse berndt told me at that time that he had written the letter and expected to get the money he aske me to telephone mr grossfeld and threaten him which 1 did this is m direct contradiction to the dying statement of berndt m which he declared that hasse wrote the letter to mr urossfcld and offered to divide the money if ho would get it boys are only 1 5 years old both berndt and hasse are only fifteen years old though large for their age it is the theory of the police that they may have been acting for some one else and a rigid investigation will be made hasse is a borseshoer's apprentice alfred hasse si father of the boy de clares that berndt is responsible for his son's troubles he says he has been trying for some time to keep them apart the of berndt was the culmination of a plot to extort money from mr gross feld which has been ging on since june id on that date mr grossfeld received a black hand letter demanding 15,000 and ordering him to leave it at the place where the shooting occurred last night mr grossfeld turned this letter over to captain o'brien two detectives were assigned to the case and accompanied mr grossfeld to the spot at the specified time but no one appeared to claim the money the letter follows mr grossfeld-have 15,000 ready for us by wednesday it june 1908 we are me famous outlaw gang known all over the world the famous black hand death league we want the money and we don't wast no tricks played for one sign of trickery we will send you and your wife to hades maybe you are one of those kid guys who says i'll put this m the hands of the police but we'll true you and your family all over hell if you let anybody know about thte make torture threats we want you to be at grind avenue and desplaines street wednesday night between 8 p m and 8:15 p m all by yourself and base money wrapped m paper good and tight no checks only bills about twenty 100 bilk and all the rest 20 10 and .'> dollar bills remember one sign of treachery and you and yours go to hell b at grand avenue and des home of consolidated banks and heads of two institutions m'faul renews his fight on colleges says hadley and other presi dents may look for fur ther attacks tr.exton n j tune 2 president hadley need not hope to evade my charge that the yale curriculum includes courses that undermine faith and breed immorality by saying he does not believe i have been quoted correctly but i haven't saidi half that 1 intend to say before 1 am done with one of the niont menaciug conditions the young men of this couutdy have ever faced bishop james a mcfaul made this state ment here to-night as custodian of the faith and morals of the people of my parish bishop mc faul said it is my duty to do my best to prevent their sending their sons to in stitutions where the net result of the four years course is the upbuilding of a cynic ism and intimacy with immoral ideas that actual experience m the workaday world would never produce bases charges on magazine article is your objection to american college life directed generally against the atmos phere m which the student works and plays bishop mcfaul was asked not at all he answered quickly t have no fault to find with the young men it is against the men who preside over those institutions â€ž 1 am ready to admit that my con demnation of yale and harvard and princeton and the other colleges i named m my address before the graduating class of st francis xavier was not based on proofs i myself have gathered but the charges have been made by a reputable writer m a reputable magazine there has been no lack of specification m the charges tine colleges where im morality is being taught have been named they are harvard yale princeton the l'niversiiy of pennsylvania the george washington lntversity william and mary the university of Chicago columbia syr acuse and the university of california the article summed up the gist of the article m the cosmopol itan magazine which called forth the bishop's attack is thus summed up the author has completed a study of american colleges extending over two years what he sets down is of most as tounding character out of the curricula of american colleges a dynamic movement i upheaving ancient foundations and promising a wave for revolutionary thought and life li is b"in taught daily that the deca i igui is no more acred than a syllabus that the home as an institution is doomed that there are no absolute evils that im morality is simply an act m contravention of society's accepted standards that de mocracy is a failure and the declaration of independence only spectacular rhetoric thai the change from one religion to another is like getting a new hat that moral precepts are passing shibboleths that concepts of right and wrong are as in ible as styles of dress that wide stair ways â– ' pen between social levels but that ifr no climber children are ms run branefs that the sole effect of profigaey is to|til tiny graves and that there can be aid are holier alliances without the inaitss e boua lh ' da within it wl i madden blamed for ettelson explosion labor czar and boyle in dicted following attempt to hold up store owner an indictment for attempted extortion of 250 from isaac ettelsou a clothier it wells and kiuzie streets was voted yes terday against martin b skinny mad den and m 1 boyle by the grand jury prior to the attempt to extort the money from ettelson a mysterious explosion oc curred m ettelson's store before the ex plosion ettelsou had been told by a strange man to call and see madden at powers & gilbert's saloon if he wanted to obtain a settlement of a strike that had been called on his store for the alleged reason that some wiring had been installed there by non-union workmen your place has been blown up and now you are willing to come to see ns said the labor czar to ettelson when the latter called at powers & gilbert's saioou according to the testimony given by ettlc son before the grand jury that's true mr madden i irave been blown up ettelson replied you'll be good madden yes you've been blown up and cow you're willing to be good madden re turned according to ettelson's sworn statement avhen ettelson called at the saloon m clark street near washington street the little office which became famous m the recent extortion trial again as used al though ettelson had two men with him whom he wanted to participate m the strike settlement madden barred every body except him^.'li ettelson and boyle from the office but these men are my partners and i 2 Chicago banks consolidated in 129,500,000 record deal continental national and the american trust and sav ings merged capita and surplus of 16,500,000 and 113,000,000 deposits institutions will retain identi ty george m reynolds and e a potter each being made first vice president of the other's bank new 2,000,000 continental issue goes to the present stockholders also 3,000 000 share for share of trust concern's stock the continental national bank and th american trust and savings bank have been consolidated it is a 129,500,000 deal the largest transaction of the kind ever made west of new york all previous bank mergers iv Chicago are insignificant compared with the one concluded m the offices of mayer meyer & austrian yesterday evening the capital stock and surplus of the combined institution will be 16,500,000 the deposits j113.000.000 neither of the concerns will lose their identity the staffs of both will remain as they are at present george x nolds will continue to be pr sideat ol the continental and e a potter of the ameri can trust but each will become first president of the other b=i ! directors of the continent i larged however and its capital s f â– increased from 4.0c0,000 to 9,000,000 the american trust and sartngs bank i-iuilding will be occupied by the unified organization the terms of the amalgamfoe ire not involved of the new issue of 53,000.000 on the part of the continental 51i.000.000 will be alloted to its present stockholders and will be sold to them on a basis to equalize the book value of the shares of both banks the remaining 3,000,000 will be exchanged share for share for the 3,000,000 capital of the american trust iv this war all of the certificates of the american trust will be trusteed for the benefit of all of the stockholders of the continental national and each american trust shareholder will become the owner of an amount of continental national stock equal to his present holding of american trust shares reynolds asks for sandwich though simple the scheme of combining the big banks was not effected without difficulty negotiations had been pro longed they had lasted m fact over four months and the chief negotiators messrs reynolds and potter looked as if they had not rested all that time as they sat wearied with work and quite exhausted by the heat m levy mayer's office on the sixteenth floor of the american trust and savings bank have you a sandwich asked president reynolds hungrily as the reporter entered president potter looked as deeply dis appointed as reynolds when the Chicago examiner's representative answered m the negative but when both had affixed their signatures to the consolidation papers their appearance was more hopeful yes we have done it said the head of the american trust it has been hard work but there is little to be said the continental wanted a trust company and the american trust wanted a national bank we met and after a long courtship married we thought it better to do it that way than to start two new enter prises i am eure i am satisfied and trust mr reynolds will be mr reynolds nodded convincingly the continental he added had had m contemplation the construction of a new building on its present site this ous olidation will obviate that necessity some years ago we wished to put up a sk - scraper jointly with the rand-mcnally people but we could not come to an agree ment perhaps it was just as well we now have come into a fine home and all our own from the ground up the association of these interests is on the lines of the first national bank and the first trust & savings bank both of which institutions happen to be next door to the newly merged bank all rivalry is denied though amiable competition un doubtedly will ensue will be indeed in evitable the chiefs of both banks are known throughout the country reynolds declined the office of secretary of treasury potter was mentioned m connection with the office the former is president of the american bankers association and like potter is recognized as an unusual able banker what continental has done the ability of b - no is f.nd i fotttr is attested by â– â€¢ . f their tire institutions i ere-r 1 i the continental national caul in 1897 i when the dep cit s wei 000,030 he â€¢ â– -â– â€¢â– hia dene tv > deposit item dpi \ â€¢ l potter took charge oil ti>b amsviaj srctinued en 2d page 2d column continued on 2d page sth column ' continued on 2d page sth column saw^r js3 awn we " â€¢ Â» ccfr weather forecast ft Chicago and vicinity show 3 ers and thunder storms and con Â§' \ tinued warm thursday followed by 3 cooler at night friday partly cloudy ml and cooler ftfc toie&t park free season ticket cou i pon m nezt sunday's examiner *** to avoid sunstroke call up north 200 the free information bureau of the Chicago examiner and learn where to rind a nice cool summer resort at which life will be pleasant this bureau answer questions about everything m to the wise a word may pk suffice proverb ] ;' r be wise and read the j - h examiner want ads 2 "-:-*

Chicago examiner vol vii no 159 a m thursday june 24 1909 16 p price one cent eu-jerea uy ten 30 ce^ts per ssto chum confesses he held elsie sigel's hand after leon strangled her wily gfiong caught m lies reveals more details of girl's death struggle keeps silent on fugitive despite letters police push inquiry believing victim's character good new york june 2.l chong sing un der the strain of the heart-breaking third rlegrep method applied by his captors al most constantly dnriu the fifty hours which have elapsed since his arrest to day supplemented his previous confession chong who was leon's room mate now admits that his hands were on the pulse :â– as no transoms over the door me no look through the door said i choug door open ail time then where were you when elsie wast strangled me no know she i strangled said chong sing still evasive where cere you then i low usta irs may-be will not change on one point the ' hinamah could not be shaken from this point lie repeated bis previous state ment lliu be oils downstairs m sung leon's restaurant about vi o'clock and ab"ul thirty minutes later went up to bis room to v ash his face was the door open between the rooms when you entered i'es where was leon he come into my room he heard me cornin before he say anything he tell me girl dead he beg me help and hide tody having told this much m english chong sing turned to ihe interpreter and said he went into the room where elsie sigel lay upon the bed partly covered with bed clothes leon was greatly excited he said but he not belieiing that the girl was dead went over to her side and picked up one hand which hung limp over the side of the bed captain carey then took up the task of questioning chong sing was she still warm little bit answered chong sing was there any pulse persisted cap tain carey this question had to be explained to the prisoner he answered finally yes but it just lasr two or three minutes how long do you think she had been dead i don't know maybe hour was blood just on her lips or did the en'ire fare show signs of it heap blood everywhere all over face i tell ling dirty work and i tell him i go way i also tell ling i give him all the money i have but i no help him with girl me afraid did you gi\e him any money yes how much i give him two bundled dollars all i had where did you get this money 1 saved it working like waiter you io!d us yesterday interposed mr how prof starr makes his case against women women of to-day attention the learned professor starr of the university of Chicago says you are barbarians and savages why because the savage man-kfilei fcsara come trophy of his victim the wearing of feathers and breasts of birds is an example of woman's fondness for bright colors a characteristic trait m savages the practice of making cuts m the body for the carrying 1 of decoration is ancient and begins m savagery woman is still the jewel nearer for her they have the same at traction that the shining quartz pebbles have for her savage sister the kavag-e and ths barbarian love strong smells and smears of color woman m civilization continues to employ the paints and the pow ders the oils and the perfumes of savagery ho-trever brave and warlike the savage recognises hie ov?n weakness savage ingenuity m gaining ends through deception ruse and treachery has become proverbial civilized woman retains these practices of savagery the savage man is largely guided by his instincts and intuitions among ourselves woman's intui tion is proverbial the savage is rarely politic he is less cautiously influenced by sel fish motives than tic civilized man so too is civilized woman woman's religion is noiablu '."â– 1 of lower culture when she reaches the idea of god how naive and crudely an thropomorphic is her real concep tion woman icill continue to b 6 a better picture of the savage than man .' so says professor starr if b â€” he ij a bachelor piser'needrsictf s>-rg*?r w.j bran jr will wed invalid fiancee to-day nebraskan'6 son will take 3ride to tucson ariz for benefit of health i lincoln neb june c si â€” a tinge of , tragedy j s woven into the romance of william 3 bryan jr son of ihe thrice presidential candidate and miss helen i - berger which is to culminate to-morrow m ' their marriage at the summer home of the ; bride's father alexander berger a wealthy milwaukee grain dealer ai grand lake colo the scion of the bryans is m his twenty-second year and has only concluded hi second year of study at nebraska l'ni versity while miss berger is not yet tw on y miss berger is an only daughter the mother dying of consumption when her laughter was scarcely more than a babf for years she has been living under the oread shadow of the white plague it was because of her frail health that mr berger built a summer home on the shore of grand lake and there the daughter spent her every summer for the past ten years recently the physicians warned mr berger it was imperative that his daii^h for must take up her residence m ari zona if her life was to be spared dis traught by her threatened ailment and by the menace of separation from the sweetheart of ber choice miss berger proposed a hasty marriage she has plead ed so successfully that both mr bryan and mr berger were won over to her cause immediately after the ceremony the younger bryan is to take his bride to tucson where is located the university of arizona at which institution he is to con tinue the studies prof starr indicts women as savages barbarians and mentally like children he says m magazine â€¢ fair sex grasps cudgel he remained too long among real savages re plies margaret haley â€” â– â€” Chicago women deny vehemently that they are barbarian and savages they re sent the imputation that they are not the intellectual equals of mere men they scoff at the statement that no woman has ever accomplished a singl thing m litera ture m art oi m science incidentally tliey have placed professor frederick starr of the university of chi cago famous scientist ethnological explorer and middle-aged bachelor who in the cur rent number of a monthly magazine has isaid some really unkind things about the gentler sex as a wbnlc upon a spit have placed him over a hot fire have turned and jbasted him until the learned professor has jbecn toasted anil done to a nice brown turn professor starr m the july number ofj the bed bock says women arc barbarians and sa ages he says also can any one anywhere actually point j out a single first-class nchie\elueut m liter 1 ature m art m science by woman he says further no great intellectuality woman may prove her ability to learn geometry and history and astronomy sue may discuss the vital questions of the day she may devote herself to journalism and authorship but when she does it on a i large scale the intellectual group must | die 5 os woman lives m an o|,l old world she thinks the old thoughts feels the obi i emotions is moved by the old impulses â€¢ he dresses m tit old gew-gaws she is thrilled by the world-old hones and fears there is only one older member of society i there i only one other hint can contest with her the child of tours is thej oldest of human beings the woman is next i nearest to the childhood of the rate audi the priest comes third and also ii win continue to be a better picture of th .-('.';â€¢ than mail lb women of Chicago return right valiantlj to the attack made upon the cs by the pi ofe sot catharine waugh mocuhoeh ardent ad vocate of woman suffrage a deep thinker and a student sayfi will not injure women women have been compared to 2lmost everything under the sun so 1 imagine that professor starr's comparing the woman of to-day to barbarians and savages ill not hurt ber much processor starr plainly bows that be does not know what he is talking or writing about when he makes the statement that he doc has rrorcssor starr forgotten maria mitchell and caroline herschel astrono ! is has be forgotten mary sonaerville has he forgotten george eliot has he forgotten harriett hosmer the sculptor or ltosn bonhnur the painter i don't think professor starr should he taken seriously 1 haxen't had time to carefully read professor starr's article but i am familiar with its general tone woman is not go ing to suffer from such attacks the deeds and achievements of women will remain shining like beacons when professor stan is gone and forgotten margaret haley professor starr m making such deroga tory remarks about woman is taking issue with history it is inconceivable that he should have written what he has pro fessor starr remained too loug among the savage tribes he has forgotten what civilization is like when it comes to women 1 should recommend that he go and see maude adams play what every woman knows his education m respect to mis arthur r bliott of liucolu park boulevard , , it is a foolish thing perhaps to take issue m a hit or miss way with the deduc tions of any expert but i cannot help thinking that if woman is not as soien tlflc she is more artistic than man and one of the beautiful things of life is the dif ferentation between man and woman cue thing prof starr iv his article does concede and that is that woman is right iv fighting for the ballot find a 14,600,000 estate knhn-loeb partner died worth three times estimated fortune new yokc june 23 receipt by ptate comptroller gaus to-daj of a check for 146,000 m payment of the collateral in heritance tax on the estate of the late louis a heinsheiner revealed his fortune 1 as 14,600,000 it was believed by his business partners m the banking firm of kuhn loeb & co that heinsheiner when he died last new year's hay left property worth about 5,000,000 appraisers how ever discovered the estate was almost three times that amount mr heinsheiner although well known among the financiers was not a man m the public eye and had lived a retired life sells vanderbilt gifts mrs br-lmost to auction everything gho got -â€¢ t divorce > ewpokt r 1 june 23 mrs 0 h p belmont ill sell at auction on friday the last belongings which she received from w k vanderbui at the time of their divorce sixteen years ago the goods ad vertised for ale consist of carriages har ness and stable equipment made for the roost part in paris the identity of the person offering the goods for sale has been a mystery for some rime but to-day the handsome landaus victorias cans and gigs passed through the city from the bel mont stables to the auction grounds the vanderbilt monogram svai on each vehicle and each piece of harness society will be well . represented at the sale boy blackmailer slain 15,000 plot 1.5-year-old youth shot to death at rendezvous with rich grocer s grossfeld is forgiven as he dies â€” â– policeman disguised as la borer fires at plotter when he grabs for money a sensational climax to the recent black 1 mailing outrages wag reached last night when rudolph hermit fifteen years old 344 noel lincoln avenue : is shot and j killed while keeping a rendezvous with a wealthy grocer from whom he had de ! manded 15,000 and a cousin alfred h.'isse 33 austin avenue was placed under arrest charged with being an accomplice berndl who lived two hours after i 1 bullet had pierced his lungs was taken to the passavanl hospital where an affect ing senne occurred when solomon cross { fold the victim or the attempted black mail appeared 1o identify him as mr grossfeld approached the bedside the dy ing boy m a feeble voice but heard bj ; every one m the poom said '[ please mr grossfeld forgive m audi kiss me before 1 die mr grossfeld the tears streaming down hits face complied with the request and assured the boy thai he was forgiven the events leading np to the shooting of berndt'were replete with drama tie inci dents sir grossfeld who lives at 42 st i lames place and is the bead of the whole \ sale grocery firm of grossfeld .' roe 185 randolph slreer had been notified during the afternoon that if be did not appeal ' under the viaducf at desplaines street and i grand avenue at 7:30 last night with n sack containing the 15,009 he would not be tiivo m the morning with detectives weinrich beaucholte els and rose of captain kane's office i he kept the appointment weinrich \ dressed as an italian laborer and carrying a pick nd shovel stationed himself on i the railroad tracks near the plnee in dicated by the allege ulai kma|l agents blackmailer shot down with the other detect gs stationed at | various points on the viaduct mr gross feld lei.i'oaeiie.i til f>mer carrying i can , \ he enirred the vi.i,i,i . b man itffpped np to him and thrusting a | revolver m bis faep demanded the money i : ; e;..iii x the sack . the man started to run tyeinrich who was standing a few yards to the side ordered him to halt the man paid no attention to him wein rich fired two shots in the ground see ing that there was danger of escape he aimed the uevt bnllet at the fleeing man the bullet hit him iv the shoulder as he fell to the pavement weinrich came up to him an ambulance was summoned and he was rushed to the passnvant hospital questioned by the police he said he was merely acting as an agent for his cousin alfred hafse of 33 a-ustin aienue on this statement hasse was later placed un der arrest at the schindler theater mil waukee avenue and huron street he admitted that he was implicated with berndt but denied he was the prime mover lie said he went to the corner of desplaines street and grand avenue with bis cousin and waited a short dis tance away while he went to get the money from grossfeld wheu the shoot ing occurred be ran 1 knew nothing of the demand on mr grossfeld until list monday night de clared hasse berndt told me at that time that he had written the letter and expected to get the money he aske me to telephone mr grossfeld and threaten him which 1 did this is m direct contradiction to the dying statement of berndt m which he declared that hasse wrote the letter to mr urossfcld and offered to divide the money if ho would get it boys are only 1 5 years old both berndt and hasse are only fifteen years old though large for their age it is the theory of the police that they may have been acting for some one else and a rigid investigation will be made hasse is a borseshoer's apprentice alfred hasse si father of the boy de clares that berndt is responsible for his son's troubles he says he has been trying for some time to keep them apart the of berndt was the culmination of a plot to extort money from mr gross feld which has been ging on since june id on that date mr grossfeld received a black hand letter demanding 15,000 and ordering him to leave it at the place where the shooting occurred last night mr grossfeld turned this letter over to captain o'brien two detectives were assigned to the case and accompanied mr grossfeld to the spot at the specified time but no one appeared to claim the money the letter follows mr grossfeld-have 15,000 ready for us by wednesday it june 1908 we are me famous outlaw gang known all over the world the famous black hand death league we want the money and we don't wast no tricks played for one sign of trickery we will send you and your wife to hades maybe you are one of those kid guys who says i'll put this m the hands of the police but we'll true you and your family all over hell if you let anybody know about thte make torture threats we want you to be at grind avenue and desplaines street wednesday night between 8 p m and 8:15 p m all by yourself and base money wrapped m paper good and tight no checks only bills about twenty 100 bilk and all the rest 20 10 and .'> dollar bills remember one sign of treachery and you and yours go to hell b at grand avenue and des home of consolidated banks and heads of two institutions m'faul renews his fight on colleges says hadley and other presi dents may look for fur ther attacks tr.exton n j tune 2 president hadley need not hope to evade my charge that the yale curriculum includes courses that undermine faith and breed immorality by saying he does not believe i have been quoted correctly but i haven't saidi half that 1 intend to say before 1 am done with one of the niont menaciug conditions the young men of this couutdy have ever faced bishop james a mcfaul made this state ment here to-night as custodian of the faith and morals of the people of my parish bishop mc faul said it is my duty to do my best to prevent their sending their sons to in stitutions where the net result of the four years course is the upbuilding of a cynic ism and intimacy with immoral ideas that actual experience m the workaday world would never produce bases charges on magazine article is your objection to american college life directed generally against the atmos phere m which the student works and plays bishop mcfaul was asked not at all he answered quickly t have no fault to find with the young men it is against the men who preside over those institutions â€ž 1 am ready to admit that my con demnation of yale and harvard and princeton and the other colleges i named m my address before the graduating class of st francis xavier was not based on proofs i myself have gathered but the charges have been made by a reputable writer m a reputable magazine there has been no lack of specification m the charges tine colleges where im morality is being taught have been named they are harvard yale princeton the l'niversiiy of pennsylvania the george washington lntversity william and mary the university of Chicago columbia syr acuse and the university of california the article summed up the gist of the article m the cosmopol itan magazine which called forth the bishop's attack is thus summed up the author has completed a study of american colleges extending over two years what he sets down is of most as tounding character out of the curricula of american colleges a dynamic movement i upheaving ancient foundations and promising a wave for revolutionary thought and life li is b"in taught daily that the deca i igui is no more acred than a syllabus that the home as an institution is doomed that there are no absolute evils that im morality is simply an act m contravention of society's accepted standards that de mocracy is a failure and the declaration of independence only spectacular rhetoric thai the change from one religion to another is like getting a new hat that moral precepts are passing shibboleths that concepts of right and wrong are as in ible as styles of dress that wide stair ways â– ' pen between social levels but that ifr no climber children are ms run branefs that the sole effect of profigaey is to|til tiny graves and that there can be aid are holier alliances without the inaitss e boua lh ' da within it wl i madden blamed for ettelson explosion labor czar and boyle in dicted following attempt to hold up store owner an indictment for attempted extortion of 250 from isaac ettelsou a clothier it wells and kiuzie streets was voted yes terday against martin b skinny mad den and m 1 boyle by the grand jury prior to the attempt to extort the money from ettelson a mysterious explosion oc curred m ettelson's store before the ex plosion ettelsou had been told by a strange man to call and see madden at powers & gilbert's saloon if he wanted to obtain a settlement of a strike that had been called on his store for the alleged reason that some wiring had been installed there by non-union workmen your place has been blown up and now you are willing to come to see ns said the labor czar to ettelson when the latter called at powers & gilbert's saioou according to the testimony given by ettlc son before the grand jury that's true mr madden i irave been blown up ettelson replied you'll be good madden yes you've been blown up and cow you're willing to be good madden re turned according to ettelson's sworn statement avhen ettelson called at the saloon m clark street near washington street the little office which became famous m the recent extortion trial again as used al though ettelson had two men with him whom he wanted to participate m the strike settlement madden barred every body except him^.'li ettelson and boyle from the office but these men are my partners and i 2 Chicago banks consolidated in 129,500,000 record deal continental national and the american trust and sav ings merged capita and surplus of 16,500,000 and 113,000,000 deposits institutions will retain identi ty george m reynolds and e a potter each being made first vice president of the other's bank new 2,000,000 continental issue goes to the present stockholders also 3,000 000 share for share of trust concern's stock the continental national bank and th american trust and savings bank have been consolidated it is a 129,500,000 deal the largest transaction of the kind ever made west of new york all previous bank mergers iv Chicago are insignificant compared with the one concluded m the offices of mayer meyer & austrian yesterday evening the capital stock and surplus of the combined institution will be 16,500,000 the deposits j113.000.000 neither of the concerns will lose their identity the staffs of both will remain as they are at present george x nolds will continue to be pr sideat ol the continental and e a potter of the ameri can trust but each will become first president of the other b=i ! directors of the continent i larged however and its capital s f â– increased from 4.0c0,000 to 9,000,000 the american trust and sartngs bank i-iuilding will be occupied by the unified organization the terms of the amalgamfoe ire not involved of the new issue of 53,000.000 on the part of the continental 51i.000.000 will be alloted to its present stockholders and will be sold to them on a basis to equalize the book value of the shares of both banks the remaining 3,000,000 will be exchanged share for share for the 3,000,000 capital of the american trust iv this war all of the certificates of the american trust will be trusteed for the benefit of all of the stockholders of the continental national and each american trust shareholder will become the owner of an amount of continental national stock equal to his present holding of american trust shares reynolds asks for sandwich though simple the scheme of combining the big banks was not effected without difficulty negotiations had been pro longed they had lasted m fact over four months and the chief negotiators messrs reynolds and potter looked as if they had not rested all that time as they sat wearied with work and quite exhausted by the heat m levy mayer's office on the sixteenth floor of the american trust and savings bank have you a sandwich asked president reynolds hungrily as the reporter entered president potter looked as deeply dis appointed as reynolds when the Chicago examiner's representative answered m the negative but when both had affixed their signatures to the consolidation papers their appearance was more hopeful yes we have done it said the head of the american trust it has been hard work but there is little to be said the continental wanted a trust company and the american trust wanted a national bank we met and after a long courtship married we thought it better to do it that way than to start two new enter prises i am eure i am satisfied and trust mr reynolds will be mr reynolds nodded convincingly the continental he added had had m contemplation the construction of a new building on its present site this ous olidation will obviate that necessity some years ago we wished to put up a sk - scraper jointly with the rand-mcnally people but we could not come to an agree ment perhaps it was just as well we now have come into a fine home and all our own from the ground up the association of these interests is on the lines of the first national bank and the first trust & savings bank both of which institutions happen to be next door to the newly merged bank all rivalry is denied though amiable competition un doubtedly will ensue will be indeed in evitable the chiefs of both banks are known throughout the country reynolds declined the office of secretary of treasury potter was mentioned m connection with the office the former is president of the american bankers association and like potter is recognized as an unusual able banker what continental has done the ability of b - no is f.nd i fotttr is attested by â– â€¢ . f their tire institutions i ere-r 1 i the continental national caul in 1897 i when the dep cit s wei 000,030 he â€¢ â– -â– â€¢â– hia dene tv > deposit item dpi \ â€¢ l potter took charge oil ti>b amsviaj srctinued en 2d page 2d column continued on 2d page sth column ' continued on 2d page sth column saw^r js3 awn we " â€¢ Â» ccfr weather forecast ft Chicago and vicinity show 3 ers and thunder storms and con Â§' \ tinued warm thursday followed by 3 cooler at night friday partly cloudy ml and cooler ftfc toie&t park free season ticket cou i pon m nezt sunday's examiner *** to avoid sunstroke call up north 200 the free information bureau of the Chicago examiner 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